About Us

San Francisco is the first city and county in the nation to launch a Financial Justice Project to assess and reform how fees and fines impact our city’s low-income residents and communities of color. Fines, fees, and financial penalties can trap low-income residents in a maze of poverty and punishment and prevent people from succeeding.  We work with community groups, city and county departments and the courts to advance reforms that work better for people and for government. Working with our partners, we have eliminated or adjusted dozens of fees and fines to lift a financial burden off of struggling residents. We are housed in the San Francisco Office of the Treasurer & Tax Collector.

Soon, our teams from the Office of Financial Empowerment and Financial Justice Project will be joining together as the SF Economic Justice Center (EJC) to do everything we can to create an economy and government systems that are fundamentally designed to serve low-income residents. We will continue to leverage our seat of local government to advance economic justice, moving towards more systemic reforms that improve the economic lives of San Franciscans.